Make sure to feel yourself at home
Friday, November 26th, 2010
Another wonderful sign at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, the home of Dunglish.
Archive for November, 2010
100 grams of lipogram
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Need your signage some checking?
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
As Katje put it (thanks!), “at Schiphol Airport you’re truly welcomed into the land of Dunglish.”
This has a terrible Ebonics ring to it, due to the syntax. And then ‘Welcome at’ instead of ‘Welcome to’ is a classic.
It’s been quiet here for a while, but I have some more Dunglish piling up.
Thanks to everyone sending stuff in!
Protest against Euroshopper English
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The Taalverdediging group, defending the Dutch language, plans to protest on Saturday 13 November at 1 pm the local Albert Heijn supermarket in Assen, Drenthe against the use of what they call “Euroshopper English’, which is the English used on generic brand products, often sold throughout the European Union.
“Prawn crackers, puff pastry biscuits, salt soft liquorice, milk chocolate sprinkles, almond flavoured rounds, rusk, Dutch spiced coockies and big battenbergs. Are we still in the Netherlands? No, we’re at Albert Heijn where the Dutch language no longer counts!”
(Link: Photo of an endive potato mash with meatless sausage by Jasja Dekker, some rights reserved)